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Produced by Disney's new film unit Disneynature, Earth marks the company's grand re-entry to the big-screen nature doc arena - which, as today's children are too young to recall, Disney re-invented in the 1950s with its True Life Adventures wildlife series, including six feature films and seven shorts. Before Disney, animals were often depicted on film as targets, either for collectors or, more often, for hunters. True Life Adventures went the opposite direction, anthropomorphizing wildlife and elevating their life experience to dramatic effect. (Would the creator of Mickey Mouse be expected to do anything else...
...create a common ground transcending ideology, nationality, and race.It is a theory put to the test in the sometimes insular, often elaborate, yet always enthralling web of sport in America.Two years ago, I forsook the rural pleasantries of my sleepy town in northeast Scotland to embark on a grand journey to Harvard. Shuffling restlessly in my economy class seat thousands of feet above the Atlantic Ocean, I could barely contain my excitement—here I was, preparing to study and compete in the country that had dominated athleticism in the 20th century: the country of a defiant Jesse Owens...
Ilse Crawford works out of her studio in London. Recently, though, she's been a regular visitor to Stockholm, thanks to a string of projects there. She designed two restaurants in the city's Grand Hotel for the chef Mathias Dahlgren. She also collaborated with a local lighting company, Wastberg, on a low-energy lamp that Design Within Reach unveiled in February. Now she's converting an old house in the financial district into a luxury bed-and-breakfast, slated to open next year. This should give her an opportunity to hit some of her favorite spots around town...
...RESTAURANTS Bakfickan A small food bar behind the opera house. Jakobs Torg 12 (08-676-58-00; operakallaren.se) Mathias Dahlgren, Grand Hotel Stockholm Partly because we designed it. Also because Mathias is such an extraordinary cook. Sodra Blasieholmshamnen 6 (08-679-35-84; mathiasdahlgren.com) Den Gyldene Freden One of the oldest restaurants in Stockholm. It's rather severe but great. Oster-langgatan 51 (08-24-97-60; gyldenefreden.se...
...overthrew a decade ago - but who won the capital last December because of voter anger at rampant violent crime and deficient city services - calls the new law "an atrocity" and "the final blow against decentralization." Chavistas like National Assembly Deputy Carlos Escarra say that's a "grand falsehood" and insist the law was a constitutionally legitimate move "to strengthen the federal district's administration...